The comments and discussion on the blog (though very minimal) make it utterly engaging for me to write. I suppose it legitimises what I write in a way.
When artists started contributing, and then a colleague, it was weird to see that they could. Then I remember when the head at my school first contributed. I was delighted. Then Dr Jonathan Barnes – who I’d heard of – wrote a couple of comments. That seemed serious.
I had someone from education in the Cayman Islands stumble across the blog and commented, and so did Doug Belshaw, whose blog is one of the finest educational blogs on the web (though he commented mainly because I linked to him).
Now there’s a small discussion developing around BSF from a previous post, and it feels like, well, I posted something worthwhile to other people! That’s cool!
This was very self-indulgent. My apologies.
This won’t be at all focussed. Even though I like to believe I’m a consummate multi-tasker, Andy Murray is playing Richard Gasquet and………!!!
I take your point about BSF and the pros. All I would say is that when we had the Sports Hall , the new block extension and the old block remodelling, I deferred to the techies, imagining that they know something about education and could design for it; wrong.
Also I could be ok about almost any safe design providing the sound, temperature, light and space are conducive to people being cool with each other and being able to lock into whatever they’re doing in comfort; sound and temperature in particular. I often experience a tipping point when going into the new block at changeover.
By: boss on June 30, 2008
at 8:02 pm
just testing; it snarled up last time and I lost all my comments
By: boss on June 30, 2008
at 8:05 pm
OK this time. I like to think I can multi-task but Murray’s in the last set and…………!!!
When we had the Sports Hall built, the new block extended and the old block remodelled, I deferred quite a lot to the techies, imagining that they understood education processes and how design needs to support it. Wrong……..though I think things are very much more sophisticated now.
I can be pretty ok about almost any safe design providing the temperature, sound, light and space are ambient and so allow people to be cool with each other and go about their learning unimpeded. I get a tipping point feeling sometimes when I go into the new block at changeover.
Murray’s snarling big time;have to go.
By: boss on June 30, 2008
at 8:12 pm
I don’t in any way think that we should hand over everything to the architects, just that we, well, need to find a happy medium. Incidentally, I don’t think any architects or builders want to aimlessly build a building either; I loved at the seminar I recently went to architects said that, but I wonder why they had to!
By: mrlock on June 30, 2008
at 9:02 pm